1470
Inca Empire Reaches Ecuador
Tupac Inca Yupanqui's armies pushed northward into the territories of the Canari and other Ecuadorian highland peoples, extending the Tawantinsuyu to its greatest northern reach across thousands of miles of Andean cordillera. Quechua was imposed as the administrative language, Inca storehouses built along the royal road at regular intervals, and local elites were brought to Cuzco as honored hostages. The Andes were being unified by logistics and road engineering as much as by war.
Regiomontanus Establishes Observatory in Nuremberg
The German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Muller, known across Europe as Regiomontanus, set up a printing press and astronomical observatory in Nuremberg with the patronage of the city's wealthy merchants. He published planetary ephemerides, mathematical treatises, and precise calendrical calculations that later directly informed Columbus's celestial navigation and eventually the Gregorian calendar reform. European astronomy was finally becoming a practical, observational science rather than merely a theoretical one.
Black Sheep Turkmen Overthrown
The Aq Qoyunlu White Sheep Turkmen under Uzun Hasan crushed their Qara Qoyunlu rivals and established a confederation stretching from eastern Anatolia to western Iran. Uzun Hasan's court at Tabriz became a center of Persian-Turkic high culture and a diplomatic partner of Venice against the Ottomans. Uzun Hasan's alliance with Venice against the Ottomans demonstrated how deeply Turkmen Iran was integrated into Mediterranean diplomacy.
Edward IV Flees to Burgundy
Warwick the Kingmaker, now allied with the Lancastrians, chased the Yorkist king into exile in Flanders. For six months the mad old Henry VI was pulled from his Tower cell and placed back on the throne like a relic in a reliquary. It was the last gasp of the Lancastrian cause.
First Printing Press Reaches France
Three German printers set up a press at the Sorbonne in Paris under humanist patronage. Within two decades, French presses would produce books in dozens of cities, standardizing French orthography and making Paris Europe's most important center of theological and classical printing. Within a decade French printers were issuing romances, legal texts, and manuals that reached audiences far beyond the university.
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Frequently asked
What happened in the year 1470?
Saeculum lists 5 curated events from 1470. The most significant is Inca Empire Reaches Ecuador: Tupac Inca Yupanqui's armies pushed northward into the territories of the Canari and other Ecuadorian highland peoples, extending the Tawantinsuyu…
What era was 1470 part of?
1470 falls within the Late Middle Ages (1301-1500). Plague, papal schism, and the seeds of nation-states.
Which regions saw notable events in 1470?
The curated events from 1470 span South America, Europe and Middle East.